Reading too much into the Question April 11, 2009
Posted by thinkphd in : MGT5028 , trackbackOne of the questions I answered for Assignment 10 in MGT5028 was a little vague. I pulled together what I thought was a pretty good answer. When I proofread my paper, I took out a portion because it seems off target based on what the question was asking; it seemed as though I had overreached the goal of the question. It was as though the question was asking for an “apples-to-apples” comparison, but I had written an “apples-to-apple cobbler” response with a more in-depth analysis. So I turned in my paper, thinking I had been succint. And right.
Got back my paper yesterday, and Dr. S said that I missed a certain part; which was also the part that I had taken out. Bummer! I thought I had read too much into the question and overthought my answer. Overanalyzing can be good in many instances, but sometimes the more obvious answer is the right one. It’s really hard to say how much is the right amount when answering some of these questions. Putting on my educator hat, the question was poorly written and subject to too much leeway to answer. I have had to ask myself several times in this course, how much of an analysis is the right amount?
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